A name born on the slopes of Everest. In 1921, Howard-Bury's reconnaissance brought back the word "metoh-kangmi", and with it the Abominable Snowman. The archive traces the image back further, to Tibetan and Buddhist folklore and to B. H. Hodgson's shooters, who in 1832 saw what they called a rakshas. Laurence Waddell's 1889 footprints in Sikkim were later folded into the same story. In 1938 Frank Smythe gave the term a chapter title in The Valley of Flowers, telling of the tracks he photographed in the Bhyundar Valley in 1937.
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